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Former Valve writer says Gabe Newell has been pretty clear about Steam: "It's an MMO" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] 32 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Arresting to have been using a thing so clearly designed to have gamelike features and never quite noticing it. I tend to credit myself as being fairly media literate and conscious about games, I guess either I'm wrong about that or they did an amazing job at it. I'll have to think carefully about that.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

    It is in no way an MMO, so don't feel bad.

    It's a community-focussed store, bordering on being a social media network.

    The crap they talk about with "levelling-up" and decorating your profile have nothing to do with gamifying the experience - they're just a way to add more microtransactions for yacht money.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    At least out of all the yacht money on the planet, his goes to science yachts as well.

    In no way is he altruistic or he'd not be a billionaire, but he's farther from the evil than the rest of the public billionaires.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    10-15 years ago, I knew a guy that bought games and traded cards just to level up his account. I remember asking him why he did it - since the levels are pretty much just cosmetic after the initial levels - and he straight up just said he liked to see the number go up

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    A friend of mine told me you get some additional discounts during Steam sales if you craft badges with cards. Never tried it or cared enough to do it, but if it's true that might be another motivation.

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